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ADG REU Viorel Gutu visit April 2025
03/04/2025

Visit of Viorel Gutu, FAO Assistant Director-General, Regional Representative for Europe and Central Asia to Brussels in April 2025.

FAO-Belgium Strategic Dialogue
26/01/2025

FAO and the Kingdom of Belgium held a strategic dialogue to solidify years-long collaboration on ensuring food security around the world.

FAO-University of Ghent Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
27/01/2025

FAO and Ghent University signed a collaboration agreement sharing a vision for transforming agrifood systems.

Belgium SDG Forum 2024
05/11/2024

Climate Finance for Agrifood Systems as a Tool to Accelerate Progress Towards the 2030 Agenda

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The quest for healthy diets
23/10/2024

What should we be eating? Is there one right answer? Is it as simple as choosing to eat well? Food must be nutritious for us to grow, work, and thrive. Is it? Hardly. These pages sum up FAO’s work to improve nutrition levels structurally, overhauling the way agrifood systems operate. By way of data, evidence, innovation, and convening power, our goal is simple: we want all people to have access to healthy food. Whatever that may mean in the place where they live.

Review of the state of the world fishery resources
24/09/2024

The FAO Fishery and Aquaculture Circular C942 Revision 4 (C942 Rev. 4) provides a comprehensive overview of the global status of inland capture fisheries. This review analyzes trends of inland capture fisheries at global, continental and subcontinental levels, highlighting the crucial role these fisheries play in food security, nutrition, employment and local economies.

Proceedings of the Sixth International Carp Conference-Szarvas, Hungary, on 31 August–1 September 2023
29/07/2024

The Sixth International Carp Conference was organized in Szarvas, Hungary, on 31 August–1 September 2023. The conference was attended by 114 participants from 14 countries, representing a range of carp value chain stakeholders. The conference aimed to strengthen the “carp segment” within European aquaculture, improve the image of carp pond aquaculture as common European heritage, and to explore the opportunities for carp within “blue aquaculture”.

The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024
24/07/2024

The report provides a long-awaited definition of financing for food security and nutrition and guidance for its implementation. Establishing a common definition of financing for food security and nutrition, and methods for its tracking, measurement and implementation, is an important first step towards sustainably increasing the financing flows needed to end hunger, food insecurity and all forms of malnutrition

The State of the World’s Forests 2024
22/07/2024

This edition of The State of the World’s Forests (SOFO) provides highlights on the state of the world’s forests and explores the transformative power of evidence-based innovation in the forest sector, ranging from new technologies to creative and successful policies and institutional changes, to new ways of getting finance to forest owners and managers.

FAO Animal Production and Health Annual report 2023
19/07/2024

The 2023 Annual Report of the FAO Animal Production and Health Division (NSA) provides in-depth information, highlights, and stories related to FAO's work on livestock production, animal health, and One Health in 2023, including the organization of the first-ever Global Conference on Sustainable Livestock Transformation.

Understanding microfinance interest rates in agrifood
19/07/2024

Interest rates have been a contentious issue in microfinance for many years. While higher interest rates for microloans are often justified by the underlying costs of making small loans in rural areas, this is not always the case.

Protecting the right to adequate food and saving lives in the Gaza Strip: Briefing note on the Occupied Palestinian Territory
18/07/2024

The note explains the fundamental principle of food as a human right, outlining the obligations of States to safeguard this entitlement. It explores how the right to food is applied in contexts of armed conflict and occupation, assessing the current conditions in Gaza against the backdrop of binding legal obligations and international legal precedents.